| | |  | Software Engineering | Home » » » Advanced .NET Remoting | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Surpassing any white papers, specialist documents and other documentationthis book features in-depth coverage of the .NET Remoting Framework. The text is organized into three main parts, and this revised, second edition features 150 pages of entirely new material! Part one includes a guide to the 1.1 framework and its capabilities in real-world applications. Part two presents .NET remoting internals, and provides real-world code and development strategies. Finally, part three looks at futuristic remoting tools and their present implementation in Visual Studio .NET 2005. You will come to see how remoting procedures will change within the new IDE and revised framework. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Mario Szpuszta | | Paperback:
| 608 pages | | Publisher:
| Apress | | Publication Date:
| February 16, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1590594177 | | Product Length:
| 9.34 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.04 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.17 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.03 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 A Great Book for Real ProgrammersDec 18, 2005
By Jason Jackson
"Jason Jackson"
I hate it when I pay good money for a poorly written book. So when I buy a book like this and it turns out so well, I am thrilled!
I have been in ".NET land" since 2001 when .NET beta 2 came out. I have written ASP.NET and Winform applications. During that time I just have not had the need to use .NET remoting, until now. The first 2 or 3 chapters are a great introduction for experienced .NET developers. I like the fact that I did not have to wade through a lot of stuff for beginners. From there the topics get advanced, with plenty of good example code to highlight the topics. Even though I had never really touched .NET remoting (except SOAP Web Services), the explanations and examples work well for me. The author keeps the examples simple, and on-topic. In my opinion, this helps to highlight the topics at hand. The content is geared towards real programmers who will be using the technology.
I also have really enjoyed the authors' candor concerning the weaknesses of .NET remoting. They have already highlighted a bad approach that I was considering.
I am more than happy to give this book a 5 star review!
13 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Worrisome but bought it anywayMar 30, 2005
By R. Smith
The original C# 2002 edition was one of my first "advanced" .Net books and it really got me going well into tight Remoting over fat Web Services. When the VB.Net version came out I bought it instantly not because I can't do C# but because I prefer doing VB.Net - and it made me happy that the book was exactly the same, line for line, down to the index except for the swapped-out languages.
When I saw the 2005 second edition I of course grabbed it because Rammer covered Remoting like no one else has ever been able to do and there are security things in .Net1.0SP3 that killed the old Remoting code and I wanted to have Rammer's details on the specifics of .Net1.1 (even though I use Remoting quite extensively these days).
BUT there was one little thing that almost made me not take the book to the counter. Page xxiv has the section "Who is this book for" that states: "All the samples printed in this book are written in Visual Basic .Net, but you can download each and every sample in both C# and VB.Net" The fact is that 100% of the printed code is C#, there is not one line of VB.Net in the entire book.
Like I said, C# isn't a problem for me, VB7 and C# come out as equals at the end of the day unless you need unmanaged pointers (C# wins) or need to do COM Automation (VB.Net wins) and Remoting doesn't need either of those things. But if the technical reviewer and editor and author missed such an obvious mistake then you kinda worry about whether the technical reviewer, editor and author might have missed some less obvious ones deep inside all of the complex code.
I'm crossing my fingers and hoping ... the original editions were true classics.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
competing with Web ServicesMar 27, 2005
By W Boudville
Judging by the previous reviews, there was an earlier edition of this book, around 2002. I am commenting on the edition that just came out in 2005.
Writing a distributed application is probably one of the hardest things to do well in programming. The authors describe the travails of other, mostly earlier attempts. DCE/RPC, CORBA, DCOM, COM+, Java RMI, EJB and Web Services/SOAP. Each had some disadvantages. Though Web Services appear the most promising. However, if you are coding such that all the machines will run .NET, then the authors suggest .NET Remoting. This is the key factor in whether you choose this over the vendor independent Web Services.
As you'd expect, the book gives a thorough explanation of Remoting. In which perhaps the best chapter is that on Tips and Best Practices. It cuts to the core of what you can best do with Remoting in its current incarnation. In this chapter, you get good, frank talk about limitations with Remoting. Most notably, not to use events or callbacks when you have a server and many clients. This makes sense, as they explain, but will go against the grain of many accustomed to GUI application development.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Best book on the topicNov 28, 2008
By Craig Bolon
"persistentreader"
This is probably the best book there will be on .NET Remoting. Now that WCF is out, the latest and greatest version of Microsoft's interprocess communication, no one will ever publish another one. Yet for many practical purposes .NET Remoting is adequate and easier to use. Although in one way or another Rammer and Szpuszta tell you what you probably need to know about it, the approach may be uncoordinated and confusing, for example when combining remoting as a communication technique and Windows service as a server housing. They do not detail the underlying architecture, much of which will be familiar to developers who worked through COM, DCOM and COM+ over the years. As with a series of other books on Microsoft technologies in about the last twelve years, one is left with the uneasy feeling that no author of those books has been directly responsible for industrial strength, production quality server products. The authors don't seem serious about the combinations of techniques that are usually needed or sympathetic with developers creating such products.
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Hard core remoting codeMay 11, 2005
By Jack D. Herrington
"engineer and author"
The authors certainly know what they are talking about in this book. But you will have to keep running to keep up. Most of the concepts are explained through copious amounts of code with little in the way of exposition. Tips and best practices are in the book, and I certainly appreciated that. A solid, if not completely pleasurable read for anyone interested in remoting with C#.
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